Mounira Al Solh
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Mounira Al Solh
Visual Artist
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Community/Lebanon Impact
Al Solh creates artworks on paper, performances, embroidery and film works about the topics of trauma, loss, migration and memory, inspired by the ongoing conflict situation in the Middle East. She treats these topics in a fictional, not documentary way.
In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic). She co-founded NOA Language School in Amsterdam in 2013.
She had solo exhibitions at (among others) BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2022), Art Institute of Chicago (2018), and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013). She participated in documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
In 2024, Mounira al Solh was selected to represent Lebanon in the 60th Venice Biennale.
Education
Education:
- 1998 - 2001: Bachelor's In Painting, Lebanese University, Beirut.
- 2003 - 2006: Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
- 2007 - 2008: Resident, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.
Major Achievements
Exhibitions, lectures & performances:
- 2024: Lebanese Pavillon, La Biennale Di Venezia.
- 2024: Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- 2024: Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 2023: Pocket Rhythms, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg.
- 2023: Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia.
- 2023: Artes Mundi 10, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
- 2023: Choreographies of the Impossible | 35th Bienal De São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2023: My past is a foreign country, DEO Projects, Temenos Hamidiye & Ottoman Baths, Chios, Greece.
- 2023: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- 2022: Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany.
- 2022: A day is as long as a year, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.
- 2020: MAM Screen 013: Mounira Al Solh, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2019: The Mother of David and Goliath, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
- 2018: Artist’s Rooms: Mounira Al Solh, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE.
- 2018: I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.
- 2018: I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, The Art Institute Chicago.
- 2016: I Want to Be a Party, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany.
- 2016: I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous, Alt Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2014: All Mother Tongues are Difficult, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon.
Accomplishments
Awards:
- 2023: ABN AMRO Art Award.
- 2007: The Uriôt Prize from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
- 2007: The Black Magic Woman Award.
- 2007: The Jury Prize at Videobrasil.